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University Medical Center Groningen The Netherlands
Grade of PVD Years 10 20 30 classic posttricuspid ES pretricuspid ?
Berger, Eur Heart J 2000 Galie, Eur Heart J 2016
PAH-CHD Evolution of pulmonary vascular disease
Center for Congenital Heart Disease
Beatrix Children’s Hospital UMC Groningen
Clinical Classification PAH-CHD (shunts) WSPH Nice 2014
Includes all systemic-to-pulmonary shunts resulting from large defects and leading to a severe increase in PVR and a reversed (pulmonary-to-systemic) or bidirectional shunt; cyanosis, erythrocytosis, and multiple organ involvement are present
with systemic-to-pulmonary shunts Includes moderate to large defects; PVR is mildly to moderately increased, systemic-to-pulmonary shunt is still prevalent, and no cyanosis is present at rest
- C. PAH with small defects
Small defects (usually ventricular septal defects <1 cm and atrial septal defects <2 cm of effective diameter assessed by echocardiography); clinical picture is very similar to idiopathic PAH
- D. PAH after corrective cardiac
surgery Congenital heart disease has been corrected, but PAH is still present immediately after surgery or recurs several months or years after surgery in the absence of significant postoperative residual lesions
University Medical Center Groningen The Netherlands
PAH-CHD
Ramjug et al. JHLT 2016 Moceri et al IJC 2014 Alonso-Gonzalez et al IJC 2015
Anatomic-Physiologic Classification
Haworth et al, Heart 2009
University Medical Center Groningen The Netherlands
Genotypes in Pediatric PAH
known PAH-genes
BMPR2 ACVRL1 ENG TBX4 Total Levy et al.
Eur Resp J 2016
5 14% 4 11% NT 3 8% 37 100% Harrison et al
Circulation 2005
2 13% 1 7% 1 7% NT 16 100% Kerstjens et al
J Med Genet 2013
3 15% NT NT 3 15% 20 100%
Rosenzweig et al JHLT 2008
8 10% NT NT NT 78 100%
Pfarr Respir Res 2013
4 14% 2 7% 1 (VUS) 4% NT 29 100%
Compared to adult PAH, the genetic architecture of pediatric PAH seems enriched in ACVRL1 and TBX4 mutations (Levy et al, 2016)
NT=Not Tested